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NASA has rescheduled the launch date of a study to measure Mars’ deep interior to May 2018 after the agency canceled the initial spacecraft liftoff in December due to a vacuum leak in a science instrument. The Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport spacecraft will undergo a redesign in support of the target …

The Jason-3 spacecraft launched Sunday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as part of an international mission that seeks to monitor global weather and rising sea levels. NASA said Monday a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried the satellite to space, where it will fly in formation with Jason-2 to take measurements of the …

Michael Huerta, head of the Federal Aviation Administration, has signed a non-binding agreement with French space agency president Jean-Yves Le Gall for both countries to conduct research and development efforts on the safety of commercial orbital space transportation. “The primary focus of this new partnership is to understand each other’s safety regulations and to evaluate safety …

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has signed contracts with space agency executives of Spain and France for the countries to continue projects for future exploration missions to Mars. NASA said Tuesday the agreement calls for France’s national space agency to develop the mast for the Mars 2020 rover’s SuperCam component. SuperCam is designed to …

NASA and French space agency Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales have partnered to construct, launch and operate a spacecraft that will work to survey the Earth’s surface water and map ocean surface heights. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall have signed an agreement to move forward a …

NASA will collaborate with the French National Center of Space Studies to send another rover to Mars in 2016 to study the red planet’s interior structure. Charles Bolden, NASA administrator, and CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall signed a partnership agreement Monday for the InSight project, NASA said Monday. “The research …

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